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Sunday, 31 August 2014

Aug. 31, 2014
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The chief of the disaster-struck
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant said in testimony before his death that
he had feared catastrophic damage to eastern Japan while he was
struggling to contain the crisis in March 2011, according to government
documents obtained Saturday.
"Our image was a catastrophe for eastern Japan,"
Masao Yoshida told a government panel that was examining the nuclear
meltdowns at the plant about 220 kilometers northeast of Tokyo,
triggered by a powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11, according to
his testimony. "I thought we were really dead."
On the government's interpretation that plant
operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. was seeking a "complete withdrawal"
from the plant on March 15, Yoshida denied such a view, expressing anger
at the office of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan and TEPCO headquarters,
which he thought had failed to understand the dire situation his workers
were facing on the ground.
"We did not escape," Yoshida said, according to
his roughly 400-page testimony, which is scheduled to be released by the
government next month.
The testimony was reflected in the panel's final
report compiled in July 2012 along with testimonies from more than 770
others. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer the following July at age 58.
The Asahi Shimbun daily reported in May that 90
percent of plant workers had left the complex despite Yoshida's order to
stay put, citing his testimony to the government panel. But Yoshida did
not say there had been a violation of his order.
At the height of the crisis on March 14, 2011,
when the No. 2 reactor's containment vessel faced the risk of releasing a
massive amount of highly radioactive materials due to the loss of
cooling functions, Yoshida said he thought he was really dead.
"I really don't want to recall this part,"
Yoshida said, because he had been imagining the worst -- nuclear fuel
melting down and breaking through the reactor pressure vessel and the
outer vessel containing it.
"All the radioactive materials would go out and be scattered", he said.
Workers continued efforts to inject water into
the No. 2 reactor to cool the molten-hot nuclear fuel in the reactor
core and managed to avert the crisis following a drop in air pressure
inside the containment vessel that had kept fire engines from injecting
water into the reactor.
Yoshida did not want his testimony to be made
public on the grounds he could have misidentified some facts due to the
fading of and confusion in his memory and that he feared that all he had
said in the testimony would be taken as fact.
When the Asahi newspaper first reported the
contents of the testimony, the government said it would keep the
testimony from the public according to his wishes.
But more recently, the government has decided to
disclose the testimony on the grounds his concerns have already become
evident as other media began reporting on it, and that continuing to
keep the testimony from the public would actually go against his will.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has given up its goal of completing
radioactive water cleanup at its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant
with its ALPS system within fiscal 2014, informed sources said Sunday.
As of Tuesday, 367,000 tons of high-level radioactive water that had
been used to cool the plant’s damaged reactors was being kept in storage
tanks, waiting to be treated with the Advanced Liquid Processing
System, according to data from Tepco.
When 11,000 tons that accumulated at trenches at the plant’s No. 2
and No. 3 reactors and 43,000 tons expected to become polluted by
flowing into reactor buildings are included, the amount of water that
needs to be treated by the end of March next year will reach 420,000
tons.
The ALPS system is now expected to treat 380,000 tons between
September and March after planned capacity expansion. The company plans
to treat the remaining 40,000 tons with a different cleanup system
starting in December.
Tepco still insists that the cleanup process will be completed by the
end of fiscal 2014. But the different system cannot remove radioactive
substances other than strontium sufficiently, making it necessary for
the remaining 40,000 tons to be treated again with the ALPS system in
fiscal 2015 or later.
Moreover, the amount of groundwater that is expected to flow into
reactor buildings could be larger than the currently estimated 43,000
tons.
Source: Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/31/national/tepco-abandons-goal-cleaning-radioactive-water-alps-system/#.VANf3fl_tbE

The candidate site for an intermediate storage facility for radioactive
soil and debris spans the towns of Okuma, foreground, and Futaba,
background, in Fukushima Prefecture. Seen in the central background is
the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

August 31, 2014

FUKUSHIMA--Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato said on Aug. 30 that his
prefecture will accept the central government’s plan to construct an
intermediate storage facility in Okuma and Futaba for radioactive debris
from cleanup work due to the nuclear disaster.
He made the announcement after meeting here with mayors of
the two towns that are jointly hosting the crippled Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant.
“I made a painful decision. I decided to accept the construction,” Sato told reporters after the meeting.
Okuma Mayor Toshitsuna Watanabe and Futaba Mayor Shiro Izawa
also said that they will accept the prefectural government’s decision,
saying that they took Sato’s acceptance seriously.
The Fukushima governor plans to convey his approval to
Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara and Reconstruction Minister
Takumi Nemoto on Sept. 1.
The decision is expected to advance the construction plan for
the storage facility, which was first advocated by the central
government several months after the nuclear plant suffered a major
accident following the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and
tsunami.
The central government will hold explanatory meetings with
landowners of the planned construction site as early as in September.
Then, it will start negotiations to acquire their land so that it can
transport radioactive soil and debris to the storage facility from
January.
When the facility is completed, radioactive soil and debris,
which have been temporarily placed in various parts of the prefecture at
present, will be transported there. This will allow the decontamination
efforts to be accelerated, since local opposition to temporary storage
sites has impeded the buildup of the contaminated materials.
However, of the more than 2,000 landowners who will be
contacted in regards to the storage facility, some are reluctant to sell
or lease their land. Therefore, the focus from now is whether they will
accept the government’s offers.
Source: Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408310016

August 31, 2014
15 Billion Bq of Tritium flows from Fukushima plant area to the sea
every single day. Tepco reported it in the handout submitted to
Fukushima fishery cooperative on 8/25/2014.
In the press conference of the same day, Tepco announced it was 1 Billion Bq, which is 1/15 times much as the actual amount.
It is not clear if Tepco tried to under-report it intentionally or
not. Tritium cannot be removed by any of the purification systems of
Tepco.

As anti-nuclear demonstrators rallied in front of the Diet building
on Aug. 30, many were troubled by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s
discussions on restricting hate speech, fearing that a clampdown could also be used to silence their dissent.
“We do not interrupt traffic. We do not break through the
cordon of police, either. Our demonstrations are different from just
generating noise or making hate speeches. The government should hear the
voices of the public,” said Tsuyoshi Mizuno, 67, a taxi driver from
Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture.
Mizuno has participated in the weekly anti-nuclear
demonstrations around the Diet building and the nearby prime minister's
office since the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
power plant.
The protesters’ concerns apparently stemmed from the
discussions held by a project team of the LDP on Aug. 28, which met for
the first time.
The team was set up in response to a request from Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe to consider possible measures to restrict hate
speech, prompted by recent
demonstrations in Tokyo and Osaka and across the country where racial
invectives were made against ethnic Koreans living in Japan.
In the discussion, Lower House lawmaker Katsuei Hirasawa, who
serves as the project team leader, said, “By looking into actual
conditions (of hate speeches), we want to consider whether the
government can deal (with them) under the current laws or if new laws
are needed.”
Participants discussed possible measures to restrict not only hate speech but also demonstrations around the Diet building.
On Aug. 30, the rally organizer estimated about 7,000
protesters opposing the restart of idled nuclear reactors gathered at
the front gate of the Diet building.
In conjunction with voices from loudspeakers, they shouted,
“We oppose the restart (of the nuclear reactors)! We also oppose the
restrictions on demonstrations.”
Sachie Masuda, 44, a temporary worker from Tokyo’s Suginami
Ward, said, “The LDP is trying to control the means for people to
express their opinions.”
While holding her daughter's hand, an elementary school
first-grader, she waved a small yellow flag that read, “Goodbye to
nuclear power.”
“If we express our opinions and, as a result, are clamped
down (by the government), we will not be able to say what we want to
say,” she added.
Emiko Mizuno, 30, a company employee from Fujisawa, Kanagawa
Prefecture, was holding up a sign that said, “Don’t crack down on
freedom of expression.”
“I feel anger at and fear over the fact that, in the ruling
party, there are people who cannot distinguish sound criticism against
the government from the acts of racial discrimination,” she said.
Currently, rallies held around the Diet building with
loudspeakers are restricted under the law to regulate noise in certain
public places. Even if the acts are noisy, however, few demonstrators
have been arrested so far.
In the Aug. 28 discussions, however, LDP policy chief Sanae
Takaichi said, “When I am in the LDP headquarters building (located near
the Diet building), there are times that I cannot concentrate on my
work for many hours.”
Another participant asked, “Is it possible to restrict anti-nuclear demonstrations under the law (to restrict hate speech)?”
Ikuo Gonoi, associate professor of international political
science at Takachiho University, who is well versed in hate speech
issues, told The Asahi Shimbun that the anti-nuclear protesters are
controlling themselves so that their rallies do not turn into riots.
"The participants are not making remarks or taking acts that
are discriminatory against certain races or are threatening certain
people’s right to exist," Gonoi said. "They are completely different
from those who are making hate speeches."
Gonoi, who has written a book titled “Demo towa nanika?”
(What are demonstrations?), added, “If the government restricts
protests, which are based on the freedom of expression, by using
restrictions on hate speech, it could endanger democracy. It will be an
extremely dangerous move.”
Source: Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201408310014

By Mari Saito and Antoni SlodkowskiIWAKI, Japan, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Like many of her
neighbours, Satomi Inokoshi worries that her gritty hometown is
being spoiled by the newcomers and the money that have rolled
into Iwaki since the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost three and
a half years ago.

"Iwaki is changing - and not for the good," said Inokoshi,
55, who echoes a sentiment widely heard in this town of almost
300,000 where the economic boom that followed the worst nuclear
accident since Chernobyl has brought its own disruption.

Property prices in Iwaki, about 60 km (36 miles) south of
the wrecked nuclear plant, have jumped as evacuees forced from
homes in more heavily contaminated areas snatch up apartments
and land.

Hundreds of workers, who have arrived to work in the
nuclear clean-up, crowd downtown hotels.But long-time residents have also come to resent evacuees
and the government compensation that has made the newcomers
relatively rich in a blue-collar town built on coal mining and
access to a nearby port. Locals have stopped coming to the
entertainment district where Inokoshi runs a bar, she says,
scared off by the nuclear workers and their rowdy reputation.

"The situation around Iwaki is unsettled and unruly," said
Ryosuke Takaki, a professor of sociology at Iwaki Meisei
University, who has studied the town's developing divide. "There
are many people who have evacuated to Iwaki, and there are all
kinds of incidents caused by friction."

HOSTS WEARY, GUESTS FRIGHTENEDResidents across Fukushima prefecture hailed the first wave
of workers who arrived to contain the nuclear disaster in 2011
as heroes. Cities like Iwaki also welcomed evacuees from towns
closer to the meltdowns and explosions. At the time, Japan's
stoicism and sense of community were praised around the world
for helping those who survived an earthquake and tsunami that
killed nearly 19,000 and triggered explosions at the nuclear
plant.

But that solidarity and sense of shared purpose has frayed,
according to dozens of interviews. Many Iwaki residents say they
have grown weary of hosting evacuees in temporary housing.

And the newcomers themselves are frightened, says Hideo
Hasegawa, who heads a non-profit group looking after evacuees at
the largest temporary housing complex in Iwaki.

"When they move in to an apartment, they don't talk to
neighbours and hide," said Hasegawa, who works from a small
office located between rows of grey, prefabricated shacks
housing the evacuees. "You hear this hate talk everywhere you
go: restaurants, shops, bars. It's relentless."

The 2011 nuclear crisis forced more than 160,000 people in
Fukushima prefecture to evacuate and leave their homes. Half of
them are still not allowed to return to the most badly
contaminated townships within 20 kms (12.4 miles) of the
destroyed plant known as the exclusion zone.

Since April, the government has allowed some residents to
return to parts of the evacuation zone. But the area remains
sparsely populated and riddled with hot spots where radiation is
as much as four times the government's target for public safety.
Work crews in white decontamination suits have poured
radiation-tainted topsoil and debris into black-plastic bags
piled at improvised storage sites on roadsides and public parks
awaiting a shift to a more permanent nuclear waste dump.

By contrast, Iwaki has prospered. On a recent Saturday,
parking lots near downtown were packed - along with restaurants
near Taira, the city's downtown. Chuo-dai Kashima, a newly
developed area in Iwaki where many of the temporary housing
units have been built, saw an almost 12 percent rise in land
prices in the past year, according to government data. That was
among the highest increases across Japan and behind only
Ishinomaki, Miyagi, a coastal city that was destroyed by the
2011 tsunami and has only just begun to rebuild.

THE NEW MILLIONAIRESAt the heart of the tensions is an unresolved debate about
how much people across Fukushima should be compensated for the
suffering, dislocation and uncertainty that followed the nuclear
accident.Some Iwaki residents grumble they are being forced to
shoulder the burden of hosting evacuees who receive far more
compensation from the government and do not have to pay rent on
their government-provided prefab temporary homes.

In January 2013, vandals threw paint and broke windows on
cars parked in evacuee housing at multiple locations. Less than
a month earlier, someone had painted graffiti reading, "Evacuees
Go Home" at the entrance to a city office.

Tokyo Electric Power, the operator of the Fukushima
plant, has paid almost $41 billion in compensation as a result
of the nuclear accident. Payments vary depending on the amount
of radiation recorded in a particular area, a system that
evacuees have complained appears arbitrary. A family of four in
one part of an evacuated town might receive $1 million, while a
similar family in a less contaminated part of the same evacuated
town would get just over half of that amount, according to data
from Japan's trade ministry.

The radioactive plume that erupted after a partial meltdown
at the Fukushima plant travelled northwest, missing Iwaki. Most
of Iwaki's residents evacuated for a while, but most then
returned.

Their compensation was also limited: the majority
received about 120,000 yen ($1,200) each.Many established residents in Iwaki complain government
payouts to the newcomers have been frittered away on luxury cars
and villas, locally dubbed "disaster relief mansions."

"The food the evacuees eat and the clothes they wear are
different," said Hiroshi Watahiki, 56, a chiropractor in Iwaki.
"They can afford it from their compensation funds. They have
time and money to go gambling since they're not working."

A poll in January by Takaki showed residents had conflicting
feelings about the evacuees. More than half of those surveyed
expressed sympathy for them, but 67 percent also said they "feel
envious of their compensation."

The tensions are unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

The government is planning to build 3,700 permanent
apartments to replace the temporary units for evacuees, most of
them in Iwaki. The first 1,600 apartments, however, are nine
months behind schedule and will not be ready until 2017,
officials say.

Although its heart is rich in pearls and ores The Sea complains upon a thousand shores
- Alexander Smith (1)

I watched some wonderful movies over the summer with “ocean” themes and one was with Robert Redford called All is Lost.
The entertainment value was good but it also made a statement about
Man's interference with Nature and how nature can strike back. I love
films like All is Lost, Master and Commander, in which the imperial navy visits the Galapagos Islands and “Kon Tiki,”
a story about a 4,000 mile trek across the ocean, because they show the
unspeakable beauty and power of the world's great oceans. Can humans
actually destroy them?

Over the past year we've read many news stories about mass die-offs of
marine species in the Pacific Ocean and other regions. One hypothesis in
the alternative media is that the massive radiation released from the
Fukushima nuclear disaster is the cause. Others blame over-fishing,
pollution or climatic events.

My opinion is that if the die-offs are unusual and
“man made” then it is a combination of factors, but Fukushima is
probably one of them. The Earth is under many human threats -- we are an
industrious species -- Fukushima is doing the ocean only harm, and
following that logic, at a minimum the health of local species and
perhaps wider ecosystems are being affected in a reverse synergy whereby
organisms have surpassed the limits they can endure.

Controversy and Denial

Folks love to argue about whether things like radiation has killed the
ocean; whether global warming is real or not or caused by humans
emitting CO2; or whether the Twin Towers on 9/11 were brought down with
nanothermite or mini-nuke explosives. But in all three cases the harm
that has been caused is uncontroversial. We should stop polluting the
environment with harmful pollutants (such as sulfur dioxide from coal
burning plants) and promote renewable energy sources; we know the
official story of 9/11 is a total lie regardless of how the buildings
were demolished (see, for example: Architects and Engineers for 9/11
Truth); and we know that whatever amount of radiation is leaking into
the ocean it is a bad thing and needs to be stopped.

It appears that after three long years a group of scientists are
finally going to have a meeting to discuss the effects of Fukushima on
wildlife (2). Logical discourse, debate and scientific honesty are
essential to finding consensus on how to solve the problem. However, our
scientific and political institutions are often so inflexible that it's
not easy to change course or offer reforms for improvement. And, let's
face it, our economic and political system is rotten to the core (3; 4;
5; 6).

Fukushima Pumps Out Contamination

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is the utility in charge of the
(FNPP #1) Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 (“dai-ichi). They recently
admitted that FNPP#1 is releasing a whopping 150 billion becquerels of
tritium and 7 billion becquerels of cesium and strontium of contaminated
water, every day, into the ocean (7). Compare that to the Japanese
government limit for food that does not allow over 100 becquerels per
kilogram in food to be sold as produce.

Fukushima: Worst Nuclear Disaster In History

It is estimated by the State of California Natural Resources Agency that
the initial Fukushima accident released nearly double the amount of
radiation compared to Chernobyl (8).

No human worker can enter the areas around the FNPP#1 reactor buildings
because it measures up to 10 sieverts per hour (9) due to the melted
nuclear fuel which is scattered at various locations beneath the
reactors.

10 sieverts equals10,000 millisieverts (a lifetime dose should not exceed 100 ms!) or 10 million microsieverts per hour, when a normal background rate might be around 0.05 up to 0.15 microsieverts per hour (10).
NHK claims the melted fuel has “cooled down” but so what? The
Abe-controlled NHK wants to reassure the public with sugary, sprinkled
donut language that “all is well” in Fukushima (11). If you compare the
mild non-coverage that Fukushima gets in the Japanese domestic media
versus the compendium of worries that independent researchers and
scientists have documented it betrays the level of denial and
helplessness on the part of the Japanese establishment versus grim
reality (12).

Eco-Damage

Dr. Tim Mousseau has carried out extensive biological research at both
Chernobyl and now Fukushima prefecture and found the same patterns of
genetic mutations and damage to insects, birds and other organisms
caused by the high doses of radiation released by the accidents (13).

War Is Peace, Slavery Is Freedom

In 2013, Dr. Chris Busby, an articulate chap of enormous integrity and
“an expert on the health effects of ionizing radiation and Scientific
Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk,” stated -- in a
fascinating interview about how the Nuclear/Military Industrial Complex
buys their own scientists in order to produce fabricated results -- that
Fukushima is “probably the worst public health scandal in human
history” and that the “actual background rate for thyroid cancer in
Japan is actually zero...[according to] a study done in 2005” (14; 15).
The background rate before the disaster was zero.

It was recently announced that “[t]hyroid cancer [was] diagnosed in 104
young people” in Fukushima. However, “government officials in Fukushima
say they do not believe the cases of thyroid gland cancer diagnosed or
suspected in the 104 young people are linked to the 2011 nuclear
accident” (16).

The article does not offer a counter argument for what might have caused
the cancers, but some dissenting experts do think Fukushima is the
cause. Oddly, the government is not carrying out thyroid cancer research
in other regions farther away from the disaster site such as in
Kagoshima or Okinawa in order to compare the data, and are apparently
ignorant of the study Chris Busby dug up that indicated the zero
incidence background rate prior to the disaster!

Considering that the normal rate of thyroid cancer in children is zero
or very rare -- as it was just prior to the Chernobyl disaster -- the
statement by officials that there is no link to the disaster is a
shameless lie. But we are talking about genocidal psychopaths in the
Nuclear Industry aren't we? (17)

The United Nations, whatever its good intentions, which controls the
IAEA who in turn oversee global nuclear affairs, is a compromised
institution when it comes to regulating the Nuclear-Military Psychopaths
(NMP) (18).

Nuclear Power Causes Childhood Leukemia

Dr. Ian Fairlie is a rare breed of hard-headed and uncompromising
scientist, not of the bought-and-paid-for variety. In a recent article
he further exposes what has been known for decades by the Chris Busbys
and Helen Caldicotts of this world, that even “properly” functioning
nuclear power plants are dangerous. His research finds:

a highly statistically significant 37%
increase in childhood leukemias within 5 km of almost all NPPs [nuclear
power plants] in the UK, Germany, France and Switzerland. It’s perhaps
not surprising that the latter 3 countries have announced nuclear
phaseouts and withdrawals. It is only the UK government that remains in
denial (19).

Suffer The Little Children Considering the Nuclear Cartel's control over Japanese politics, blatant
denial of statistical data in Europe and the way the UN is compromised,
it's unsurprising to find that the Japanese government, prone to
byzantine politics and opaque political processes to begin with, would
lie about the effects of radiation on children.

The excellent website, Simply Info, opined that the recent
findings of increasing cancers among Fukushima children exposes the
government's deceptive handling of the issue:

“The Health Survey has been less than transparent in what data they
release. Many times the data given makes it impossible to perform any
sort of outside analysis or obtain a clear picture of what is going on.
The survey has refused to release any sort of raw data or additional
information in a way that allows for ... review or confirmation that
their reports accurately present the real situation” (20).

Whither The Pacific Northwest?

Recently Dana Durnford who is true citizen-hero, is also a resident,
fisherman and diver of the British of Columbia coastal area of Canada.
He and a colleague did a survey of 200 km of the BC coast and found it
to be practically lifeless of many normally thriving species (21). This
is unprecedented according to Durnford who has lived and worked in the
region for years and knows the topography and ecology there like the
back of his hand. Is the cause due to Fukushima radiation?

This article from Washington’s Blog (WB) has some good maps that
show how ocean currents are sweeping Fukushima radiation toward North
America (22). The big question is about dispersion of radiation in the
ocean: does it disperse and dilute and become harmless or is it
concentrated enough to have an effect? A fisheries expert cited in the
article argues that radiation is not the cause but WB refutes some of
his claims. An anonymous person in the comment section purports a theory
about radiation killing the plankton thereby screwing up the ocean
ecology. It sounds like a reasonable hypothesis to me that should be
investigated.

A Drop In The Ocean?

Returning to the argument of Dr. Chris Busby, while a lot of people make
big statements about the death of the Pacific, he uses mathematical
calculations to make his case. I have not seen his figures either
verified or disputed by other scientists.

In his audio interview he noted he is aware that all of the radiation
will not dilute uniformly and that various currents will concentrate the
radiation in certain places but he does not believe the radiation will
cause an ecological catastrophe because the ocean is just too darned
big. Busby does emphasize the danger to Japan especially people living
in the vicinity of Fukushima, but notes that even if the entire
inventory of radioactive materials were to make it to the ocean, that
the above ground atomic bomb tests released more radiation than
Fukushima could.

If we add the bomb tests plus Fukushima, maybe the accumulation is something to worry about.

Here is what he wrote for Russia Today in 2013:

The...Pacific Ocean is big enough for this
level of release not to represent the global catastrophe that some are
predicting. Let’s get some scoping perspective on this. The volume of
the North Pacific is 300 million cubic kilometers. The total inventory
of the four Fukushima Daiichi reactors, including their spent fuel
pools, is 732 tons of Uranium and Plutonium fuel which is largely
insoluble in sea water. The inventory in terms of the medium half-life
nuclides of radiological significance Cs-137, Cs-134 and Strontium-90,
is 3 x 1018 becquerels (Bq) each. Adding these up gives about 1019 Bq.
If we dissolve that entire amount into the Pacific, we get a mean
concentration of 33 Bq per cubic meter - not great, but not lethal. Of
course this is ridiculous since the catastrophe released less than 1017
Bq of these combined nuclides and even if all of this ends up in the sea
(which it may do), the overall dilution will result in a concentration
of 1 Bq per cubic meter. So the people in California can relax. In fact,
the contamination of California and indeed the rest of the planet from
the global weapons test fallout of 1959-1962 was far worse, and resulted
in the cancer epidemic which began in 1980. The atmospheric megaton
explosions drove the radioactivity into the stratosphere and the rain
brought it back to earth to get into the milk, the food, the air, and
our children’s bones. Kennedy and Kruschev called a halt in 1963, saving
millions (Op. cit.).

Deep Sea Snooze Fuguheads Furrowed In Ocean Floor

Mainstream science websites like Deep Sea News posit that there
is no threat whatsoever from Fukushima radiation, yet devote very little
attention to the issue other than to deride those are worried about it
(23). In one of their rare articles on the topic I read some months ago,
there had previously been a long and thoughtful debate in the comment
section among some of their critics, even mainstream scientists, who
chastised DSN for so handily dismissing the radiation threat. Recently
when I checked the site all of those comments had been deleted and no
new articles on the topic had since been published. Only those who
cheerlead for their website are allowed to publish comments.

Science follows funding, and promoting the anthropogenic theory of
global warming (AGW) pays better than locking horns with the nuclear
industry (big bucks military industrial complex). In the meantime,
promoters of Al Gore's official religion, AGW, had to come up with a
computer model to explain why global warming is on hiatus until 2030,
but don't worry, it will be back and so will their funding (24).

The Cosmic Convergence Group has just published a lengthy essay
that goes into multiple causes of climate change, and while
acknowledging the reality of AGW disagree with the way it has been over
emphasized and politicized and instead offer a scientific analysis of
complex, interrelated phenomenon (25).

As one observer noted to me regarding ocean collapse and climate change:

I think its a state-change in the Pacific
eco-system and that Fukushima was simply the precipitating catalyst
(26). Entropy was rising in the Pacific for many reasons but whole-scale
chemical and elemental contamination (e.g., lead, mercury, uranium,
strontium) had already pushed the world's oceans towards state change.
There are also quite a few earth changes that have increased ocean
acidification. I really think the climate change problem distracts from
the more encompassing problem of broad scale eco-system collapse. (Maija
Nadesan, personal email communication, August 29, 2014). The Knowledge Gap And Pacific Marine Species Die-Offs

Nancy Foust of Simply Info replied to my question as well: “How bad is the radiation to Pacific marine life?”:

There is lots of debate about this issue with
die offs. Much of what has been cited since 2011 had documented problems
or previous similar die offs prior to Fukushima.

What
is the big unknown is that the radiation releases from Daiichi are
still very much up for debate. This gives me pause every time I see some
declaration that there is no problem of any kind and never will be
related to the Pacific. Until we all have a better scientific grasp of
the actual releases into the Pacific over time it is impossible to make
solid projections. Most of the estimates on Pacific contamination that I
have read only used the initial sea releases as their basis. So they do
a good job of estimating where contamination might circulate. But if
they only account for the initial release and not the additional over
time releases, their estimate will be low. The big question is how low.

Are
they just slightly lower or are they considerably lower? What matters
then is what were the actual releases to the sea over time. Right now
nobody is doing comprehensive and unbiased research into this, or if
they are they haven't published it yet. So there is a knowledge gap.

Recently
TEPCO admitted to much larger sea releases over time since 2011 than
they had previously admitted to [currently 157 billion becquerels per
day!]. There were some oceanography experts that had called TEPCO's
previous figures into question as their readings were showing there had
to be an ongoing release because the readings they were taking were not
sufficiently going down over time.

So
the big question is the difference between these estimates currently
being used for Pacific projections and how these new admissions might
change those.

As far as
dispersal. It appears to be a little of both based on the published
studies and what oceanographers seem to be most interested in
monitoring. It will dilute to an extent, but it will also follow
currents and there is some research that found concentrations higher in
certain levels of the sea depths. There is also the known issue of
cesium concentrating in the sea floor. Much of the research has focused
on cesium but from the new TEPCO findings strontium 90 is an equal or
larger concern and it isn't being monitored or tested for in the sea the
way cesium is (personal email communication, August 27, 2014).

Animal Die-Offs Worldwide

In 2013, yachtsman “Ivan MacFadyen says he was shocked by absence of sea
life during his 37,000km voyage between Australia and Japan” and
described the Pacific Ocean as “dead” due to “severe overfishing.” He
reported that the ocean was strewn with “copious amounts of rubbish” and
that “[i]t started to strike me the closer we got to Japan” the deader
the ocean became (27).

There are multiple causes to the destruction of the flora and fauna of
the planet including pollution (from rubbish to radiation), habitat
destruction, poaching/over harvesting of species for human consumption
and even geophysical disruptions that are now taking their toll on
marine habitats.

Whether or not you share the eschatological position of the website, End Times Prophecy,
I was amazed to come across this list of animal die-offs at their page,
“Mass Animal Deaths for 2014.” It is truly horrifying and appears to be
entirely verifiably, factual information (28). We do have to consider
that throughout Earth history there have been population explosions
followed by die-offs, and that in the past, before the Internet, many of
these occurrences were not so readily documented for public viewing.
Still, there seems to be a pronounced and disturbing pattern here that
is not just a random collection of information.

Meanwhile Japanese Are Still Eating Fish It is hard to detect the severity of this state-change to the natural
world when viewing the complacency and normality of daily affairs in
Japan. Sushi restaurants all over Tokyo are packed with customers as if
nothing ever happened. Most people, although against nuclear power now,
are apolitical and apathetic and will do pretty much whatever the
government lays out for them (hey sheep the abattoir is over there!).
This is evident as the economy stagnates, the nuclear issue remains
unresolved and yet Prime Minister Abe keeps pushing to increase Japan's
military and nuclear capabilities.

Understandably the farmers in Fukushima are suffering due to the
disaster which had nothing to do with them in the first place. Someone
else's mistake (Tepco's) has cost them their livelihoods. In reality,
Fukushima prefecture is quite large and I would guess the other side of
the region does not have that much radiation, but because the name
“Fukushima” is affixed to a food product many people will avoid buying
it for fear of radiation.

That said, one wonders about the wisdom of campaigning the rest of the
country to gobble down Fukushima's delicious produce. Seafood will have
to be monitored for a long time, if not forever (29). And yet one 5 star
hotel in Japan is trying to support Fukushima by serving its food on
their menu (30). However, Japan is having a hard time getting other
Asian countries such as Hong Kong to accept their exported food (31).

I live in Tokyo and personally avoid buying any produce from the
northeast or Tokyo regions, although sometimes it is unavoidable. The
radiation from Fukushima's nuclear explosions spread hot particles and
all assortment of radionuclides across Japan, North America and even the
entire world. No one is safe.

Going Green Before We Go Dead

All of this mess could have been avoided. As the world's leading
renewable energy expert, Amory Lovins has shown, renewables such as
solar and wind could offset the need for nuclear and fossil fuel based
energy sources for many countries including Europe, the US and Japan.
Probably for the entire world.

Even the bastion of capitalist ideology, perhaps following the lead of investors like Warren Buffett, Forbes magazine, is promoting wind power over nuclear as having greater scalability,
meaning that wind power versus nuclear has “the ability of a system,
network, or process to handle a growing amount of work in a capable
manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth” (36).
If there is anything capitalists love it is growth of their assets so
maybe they are waking up to saner options.

Fukushima And Dispossession

Finally, please keep an eye out for the upcoming book on Fukushima entitled: Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization
(2014). It should be published within the next month or so and is an
anthology of articles by a wide variety of independent-minded
journalists and scholars of unique talent written in order bring into
sharper focus the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Some
of the proceeds from the book will be donated to help children refugees
who are still suffering in temporary housing situations in the Fukushima
area.

Richard Wilcox is a Tokyo-based teacher and writer who holds a
Ph.D. in environmental studies and is a regular contributor to the
world's leading website exposing the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Rense.com. He is also a contributor to Activist Post.
His radio interviews and articles are archived at
http://wilcoxrb99.wordpress.com and he can be reached by email for radio
or internet podcast interviews to discuss the Fukushima crisis at
wilcoxrb2013@gmail.com.

In Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, the town's
first non-Japanese reconstruction support ambassador is trying to send a
message out to the world that assistance is still needed in recovery
efforts from the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
"Please give just a little more help for the town of
Minami-Sanriku," pleaded Angela Ortiz, a 32-year-old American who was
appointed as a representative of the town in February. At a gathering
organized by an international NGO in Tokyo this past spring, she said,
"The disaster is not over. I want to ask all of you to become a window
and show the world the reality in Tohoku."
Born on the U.S. West Coast, Angela Ortiz came to Japan at
the age of 4. On March 11, 2011, when she was teaching at a Tokyo
kindergarten, she saw the first images of the tsunami's destruction on
the news. She sped off to the area within the week and helped set up the
group O.G.A. for Aid to assist the survivors in Tohoku. She has been
working in Minami-Sanriku ever since.

At first the group went around distributing supplies sent in from
around the world to survivors. When distribution of supplies stabilized
and the need changed to rebuilding of livelihoods, O.G.A. implemented
projects to help the survivors become "independent."
The group worked with volunteers and others to plow
uncultivated and fallow fields in the name of "reclamation" to assist
farmers who lost fields in the tsunami. O.G.A. for Aid set up an
arrangement to grow produce with the farmers in the fields, sold it
locally and in the Tokyo area, then distributed the profits to the
farmers. It has opened up around three hectares to farming in three
years and sales have topped 10 million yen ($98,500). At the harvest
festival, the local farmers and foreign volunteers stood together and
sang songs by Saburo Kitajima, a famous enka singer who often sings
about the spirit of Japanese farmers and rural laborers.
"A thousand volunteers from 22 countries have visited Japan
with us here, they all come to love the country, and then they go back
home,” Angela Ortiz said. "The reconstruction is long and tough, but I
think it's also a chance for the Japanese people to grow and in their
recovery, become leaders in disaster risk reduction, in rebuilding and
what recovery means. Their culture and how they help each other in their
communities is a beautiful example we can all gain value from
understanding more."

The government plans to
disclose, as soon as early September, the contents of interviews with
Masao Yoshida, the manager of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant at the
time of the March 2011 disaster.
Before his death in July 2013,
Yoshida submitted a written statement to the government’s Nuclear
Incident Investigation and Verification Committee, asking that the
interviews not be made public. However, the government decided to
disclose them because from May on, some news organizations reported part
of the interviews, which were conducted by the government committee.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference
Monday that keeping the records secret would actually contradict
Yoshida’s intentions, given that several newspapers had carried articles
describing only part of the records.
Suga said the government
plans to redact some parts of the documents that are related to the
rights and financial interests of third parties, as well as national
security.
Asahi reports contradict interviews
The Asahi
Shimbun reported in its May 20 issue that workers at the Fukushima No. 1
nuclear plant violated Yoshida’s orders and withdrew from plant
buildings, but the records say Yoshida did not order them to remain in
the compound.
The Asahi reports brought into the public eye the
issue of disclosing information the government has kept private. The
Asahi Shimbun said the article was based on the records and internal
documents of Tokyo Electric Power Co.
“Actually, I didn’t order
them [staff] to go to 2F [the Fukushima No. 2 plant]. I meant to tell
them to temporarily evacuate to places near the Fukushima No. 1 plant
where the radiation dose levels were low, and wait for instructions,”
Yoshida said in an interview.
But his instructions were not
accurately transmitted to the staff, and about 650 people, or about 90
percent of the staff, left for the Fukushima No. 2 power plant.
Yoshida said: “When I was told they had left for 2F, I said, ‘That can’t
be helped.’ Then I said, ‘Tell them to contact me when they arrive at
2F, and tell group managers [senior staff] to return first,’” according
to the records.

Yoshida’s next statement is a key point. “But going to 2F was actually a
far better decision when I consider it carefully,” he said.
This
statement indicates that the staff’s decision to leave the power plant
was ultimately appropriate, even though they did not act as Yoshida
instructed.
Yoshida said in the interviews that he did not use
the term “full retreat.” He defined the term “evacuation” as “a
temporary movement of staff, while retaining those who are needed to
control the plant.”Speech

1Panel:
Ex-TEPCO officials should
beindicted<a>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html</a><a>http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.fr/2014/08/panel-ex-tepco-officials-should-be.html</a>EDITORIAL:
Public demands the truth about Fukushima
accident<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201408010021</a>Tepco
plansto put ALPS in full operation from
December.”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/tepco-plans-to-put-alps-in-full-operation-from-december/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29</a>“Fukushimaand
4 other prefectures to request the gov to establish system tostably
supply Fukushima
workers.”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/fukushima-and-4-other-prefectures-to-request-the-gov-to-establish-a-solid-system-to-stably-supply-fukushima-workers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29</a>BeforeWe
Get
All Excited About The TEPCO
Rulinghttp://shisaku.blogspot.fr/2014/08/before-we-get-all-excited-about-tepco.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/OStrU+%28Shisaku%29Water
treatment to get intofull swing at Fukushima No. 1 in December, Tepco
claims<a>http://fukushima-is-still-news.over-blog.com/article-more-promises-to-get-alps-going-124277549.html</a>Fukushimafarm
ships 1st produce cultivated in evacuation
zone<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/life_and_death/AJ201408010041</a>Nukescan
only exist “at somebody’s expense” Fukushima No. 1
schoolteacher says disaster lessons still unlearned
<a>http://fukushima-is-still-news.over-blog.com/article-nukes-can-only-exist-at-somebody-s-expense-124277581.html</a>“NRAreports
Cs-134/137 density in Tokyo tap water higher than
Fukushima.”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/nra-reports-cs-134137-density-in-tokyo-tap-water-higher-than-fukushima/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29</a>“MOEincreased
decontamination limit 3 times much as
before.”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/moe-increased-decontamination-limit-3-times-much-as-before/</a>UN,Japan,
Concealing Extent of Fukushima
Catastrophe<a>http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/44145-fukushima-catastrophe.html#sthash.5cgmPLZn.dpuf</a>I
like doing this type ofcalculations that “Bring it
Home”<a>http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.fr/2014/08/bringing-it-home-understanding-cesium.html</a>Citizenpanel
pins blame on ex-TEPCO execs for accepting nuclear safety
myth<a>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140801p2a00m0na007000c.html</a>2WhyNew
Studies Are Needed Now! The Fukushima Health Crisisby JOSEPH
MANGANO and JANETTE
SHERMAN<a>http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/01/the-fukushima-health-crisis/</a><a>http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2501184/fukushima_we_need_health_studies_now.html</a>Planto
complete radioactive water purification at Fukushima plant
hitssnag<a>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140802p2a00m0na009000c.html</a>TEPCOOutlines
Plan To Remove Damaged Fuel At Unit 4
<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13595</a>Donorspay
to test seawater for traces of Fukushima
radiationhttp://www.ktoo.org/2014/08/02/donors-pay-test-seawater-traces-fukushima-radiation/NAGASAKIPEACE
SYMPOSIUM: Panelists urge Japan to break away from U.S.
nuclearumbrella<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201408020049</a><a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/physical-strength-of-fukushima-children-in-2013-worse-than-2012/</a>“[Supportby
drinking]Kirin to sell liqueur of Japanese pear made
inFukushima.”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/support-by-drinkingkirin-to-sell-liqueur-of-japanese-pear-made-in-fukushima/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29</a>EnvironmentMinistry
to focus decontamination work on individual exposure
amounts<a>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140802p2a00m0na010000c.html</a>3OceanRadioactivity<a>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/opinion/ocean-radioactivity.html?_r=0</a>TheRadiation
That Makes People Invisible: A Global Hibakusha
Perspective<a>http://www.japanfocus.org/-Robert-Jacobs/4157</a>Japan’s
anti-nuclear movementWhere’s the protest?
<a>http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/08/japan-s-anti-nuclear-movement</a>ETHOSin
Fukushima<a>http://www.evacuate-fukushima.com/2014/08/ethos-in-fukushima-%E7%A6%8F%E5%B3%B6%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%82%B9/</a>FukushimaUnit 4 Hoax by
Main Stream Media Explained
<a>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdsrsBaKs9U</a>Questioning
the Very Status of theMinistry of the Environment Expert Meeting
Regarding the Status ofDisaster Victims’ Health
Management<a>http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.fr/2014/08/questioning-very-status-of-ministry-of.html</a>4TepcoSet to Miss
Target for Fukushima Radioactive Water Cleanup
<a>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-04/tepco-set-to-miss-target-for-fukushima-radioactive-water-cleanup.html</a>FukushimaUnit
2 Torus Room
Inspection<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13601</a>FukushimaBypass
System Continues To Pump Clean Groundwater Into Pacific
<a>http://www.nucnet.org/all-the-news/2014/08/04/fukushima-bypass-system-continues-to-pump-clean-groundwater-into-pacific</a>Study:
Plutonium from Fukushima wentfurther than Chernobyl — Researchers
‘surprised’ their mostplutonium-contaminated sample was from site
farthest from Fukushimaplant — Concern material is flowing into
Pacific Ocean from
land<a>http://enenews.com/plutonium-releases-from-fukushima-were-transported-longer-distances-than-chernobyl-researchers-surprised-sample-with-most-plutonium-was-at-site-furthest-from-fukushima-plant-concern-over-plu</a>Experts:
Fukushima ‘globallyenhanced’ cesium-137 levels in air by 2 to 3
orders of magnitude —Radioactive plume that reached Europe
“contaminated the land, andas a consequence the whole food chain”
— Concentrations
greatlyunderestimated<a>http://enenews.com/experts-fukushima-disaster-globally-enhanced-cesium-137-levels-in-air-by-2-to-3-orders-of-magnitude-radioactive-plume-that-reached-europe-contaminated-the-land-and-as-a-consequence-the-whol</a>5TEPCO logs 1st
profit in 4 yrs
forApril-June<a>http://www.the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001465761</a>Physician:
U.N. whitewashingFukushima catastrophe, yet their report reveals
“more than 9,000will die of cancers”… number likely much higher
if correct dataused — Professor: “It’s brainwashing… an
infamous lie… anabuse of science… their own data contradicts
their
publicconclusion”<a>http://enenews.com/physician-trying-whitewash-fukushima-catastrophe-report-reveals-9000-people-will-die-cancers-number-higher-correct-data-actually-professor-could-call-brainwashing-infamous-lie-abuse-science-data-co</a>Responsibility
for
disaster<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/08/05/editorials/responsibility-for-disaster/</a>Newreport
estimates 278 trillion Bq of plutonium released from
Fukushimareactors — Over 200 times higher than amount reported by
Tepco —“Highly radiotoxic when incorporated into human body” as
itdecays<a>http://enenews.com/new-report-estimates-278-trillion-bq-of-plutonium-released-from-fukushima-reactors-over-200-times-higher-than-amount-reported-by-tepco</a>Tepco
dumping ice in Fukushimatrenches in bid to freeze toxic
water<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/05/national/tepco-dumping-ice-in-fukushima-trenches-in-bid-to-freeze-toxic-water/</a>Restart
of Sendaireactors unlikely before
winter<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/05/national/restart-of-sendai-reactors-unlikely-before-winter/#.U-MNaONdUnk</a>6Reactor
No. 3 meltdown occurred 4hours
earlier<a>http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001478604</a>Three
Years later, Japan FinallyTells The Truth: More Fuel Melted At
Fukushima<a>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-06/three-years-later-japan-finally-tells-truth-more-fuel-melted-fukushima</a>TEPCOsays
Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 meltdown worse than
estimated<a>http://enformable.com/2014/08/tepco-says-fukushima-daiichi-unit-3-meltdown-worse-estimated/</a>Hiroshimamayor
urges gov’t to honor 69 years
withoutwar<a>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140806p2a00m0na011000c.html</a>Meltdown
at Fukushima reactor 3 worse
thanthought<a>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140806_21.html</a><a>http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001478604</a><a>http://fukushima-is-still-news.over-blog.com/article-no-3-meltdown-happened-earlier-than-previously-thought-124313972.html</a><a>http://enenews.com/nhk-news-flash-meltdown-at-fukushima-worse-than-thought-most-of-nuclear-fuel-melted-through-reactor-3-and-continued-down-to-bottom-of-outer-containment-vessel-has-changed-their-unders?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29</a><a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13608</a>Volcanoesand
nuclear plants
<a>http://theboldcorsicanflame.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/there-is-an-ongoing-battle-between-the-sakurajima-volcano-and-50-km-away-sendai-nuclear-power-plant-in-kyushu-southwestern-japan/</a><a>http://fukushima-is-still-news.over-blog.com/article-volcanoes-and-nuclear-plants-124313613.html</a>Apropos
du mur congelé de Fukushima
<a>http://www.fukushima-blog.com/2014/08/a-propos-du-mur-congele-de-fukushima.html</a>Visitede
Namie
<a>http://www.fukushima-blog.com/2014/08/visite-de-namie.html</a>Tepcoadmitted
most part of fuel melted out of reactor pressure vessel inReactor
3<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/tepco-admitted-part-fuel-melted-reactor-pressure-vessel-reactor-3/</a>Tepco“In 311, Reactor 2
possibly had [large amount] of heat withfire-engine water touching
the
fuel”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/tepco-311-reactor-2-possibly-large-amount-heat-fire-engine-water-touching-fuel/</a>MilesO’Brien returns to
the site of Japan’s nuclear disaster threeyears
later<a>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/miles-obrien-returns-site-japans-nuclear-disaster-three-years-later/</a>Fukushimareactor 3
meltdown was worse than estimated:
Tepco<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/06/national/fukushima-reactor-3-meltdown-worse-estimated-tepco/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fukushima-reactor-3-meltdown-worse-estimated-tepco</a>LatestFukushima plume is
not going
away.<a>http://optimalprediction.com/wp/latest-fukushima-plume-is-not-going-away/</a>Paperworkforces
Kyushu Electric to delay reactor
restarts<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201408060038 </a>Citizen
scientists to help UVic measure radiationfrom
Japan<a>http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/citizen-scientists-to-help-uvic-measure-radiation-from-japan-1.1301249</a>PressRelease
(Aug 06,2014)TEPCO ISSUES PROGRESS REPORT ON INQUIRY INTOUNANSWERED
DETAILS OF
FUKUSHIMA<a>http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2014/1240140_5892.html</a>7Tepcodischarged
the largest volume of bypass contaminated water / 700million Bq of
Tritium to the
Pacific<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/tepco-discharged-largest-volume-bypass-contaminated-water-700-million-bq-tritium-pacific/</a>TEPCO topump up, release
groundwater around Fukushima No. 1 plant into
sea<a>http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001479453</a>Tepcoplans
to dump toxic Fukushima groundwater in ocean after
treatment<a>http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1568251/tepco-plans-dump-toxic-fukushima-groundwater-ocean-after-treatment</a>Official:“Unfortunately,
the fuel itself is exposed” at Fukushima —Scientist: Our tests
show contamination isn’t going away…reactors are leaking out into
ocean… there’s still a problem —PBS: Plume of water tainted
with radiation is reaching to other sideof
Pacific<a>http://enenews.com/official-fuel-exposed-fukushima-scientist-tests-show-contamination-going-away-reactors-leaking-ocean-problem-pbs-plume-water-tainted-radiation-reaching-other-side-pacific-video</a>Fukushimanuclear
meltdown worse than initially reported –
TEPCO<a>http://rt.com/news/178572-fukushima-nuclear-meltdown-worse/</a>TEPCOmay
pump, release nuclear plant
groundwater<a>http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001479453</a>Decontaminated
water from Fukushimaplant to be dumped into
sea<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408070060</a>TEPCO:Nearly
all nuclear fuel melted at Fukushima No. 3
reactor<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408070055</a>Optimisticview
of groundwater discharge
<a>http://fukushima-is-still-news.over-blog.com/article-an-optimist-view-of-groundwater-discharge-124321709.html</a>FukushimaWatch:
Regulator Says Tepco Must Focus on Trench Water
<a>http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/08/07/fukushima-watch-regulator-says-tepco-must-focus-on-trench-water/</a>‘Increasingalarm’
at Fukushima: Thousands of tons of plutonium contaminatedliquid in
trenches leaking into ocean — ‘Biggest risk’ at plant—
‘Exceptionally difficult’ problem — ‘Constant flow’ inand
out of trenches — ‘Racing to stop’ more from coming in
<a>http://enenews.com/japan-officials-increasingly-alarmed-thousands-tons-plutonium-contaminated-liquid-fukushima-trenches-leaking-ocean-biggest-risk-plant-exceptionally-difficult-problem</a>#FukushimaI
NPP: Source of Neutron Detected on March 13-15, 2011 May BePlutonium
and Uranium Released by Core
Melt<a>http://ex-skf.blogspot.fr/2014/08/fukushima-i-npp-source-of-neutron.html</a>Fukushimaoperator
unveils newest tainted-water
plan<a>http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/fukushima-operator/1301670.html</a>8Gov’toffers
Fukushima 301 bil. yen for 30-yr nuclear soil
storage<a>http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/08/306107.html</a>‘Shock’:
Water underneathFukushima reactors to be dumped in ocean — Attempts
to deal withproblem have ‘failed’ — Officials: It’s better
thanradioactive substances just “spilling directly into the
ocean”like it is
now<a>http://enenews.com/shock-water-fukushima-reactors-be-dumped-ocean-attempts-deal-problem-failed-officials-better-allowing-contamination-spill-directly-ocean-like-video</a>“Iwaki
city board of educationdecided to use local rice to school lunch from
this
December.”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/iwaki-city-board-of-education-decided-to-use-local-rice-to-school-lunch-from-this-december/</a>Governmentto
provide $3 bil. for
Fukushima<a>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140808_15.html</a><a>http://fukushima-is-still-news.over-blog.com/article-three-billion-dollars-over-30-years-124329613.html</a>9“[Breaking]
NHK admitted pieces ofnuclear fuel and reactor vessel flew to at
least Ibaraki
prefecture.”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/breaking-nhk-admitted-pieces-of-nuclear-fuel-and-reactor-vessel-flew-to-at-least-ibaraki-prefecture/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29</a>Fukushimatowns
look set to bite on new offer of more money for
storagefacilities<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408090038</a>Fukushima
Contaminated Water Problems Worsen
.<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13627</a>TEPCOapplies
to build new water drain
system<a>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140809_14.html</a>Spider
Web Phenomenon Visible on Futaba Webcam
<a>http://majiasblog.blogspot.fr/2014/08/spider-web-phenomenon-visible-on-futaba.html</a>10No
work is on-going in Fukushimareactor buildings for “summer
vacation”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/work-going-fukushima-reactor-buildings-summer-vacation/</a>TEPCO’s
invisible Death Lightshines Day
and Night<a>http://tekknorg.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/tepcos-invisible-death-light-shines-day-and-night/</a>Japan
Professor: Outbreak of canceris now underway in Fukushima children;
Clear evidence of an epidemic— All of Japan is still being exposed
to nuclear radiation —Gov’t Official: It will be ‘disastrous’
if we have to concludethere’s an actual increase in thyroid cancer
from
Fukushima<a>http://enenews.com/japan-professor-outbreak-cancer-fukushima-children-clear-evidence-epidemic-underway-all-japan-being-exposed-nuclear-radiation-govt-official-will-be-disastrous-conclude-actual-increase-thyroid-ca</a>Uraniumcollected
at Tsukuba, 172km from the devastated Fukushima NuclearPower Plant
and just 60km from the center of Tokyo, on march 14,
2011YoshinariAbe, Yushin Iizawa, Yasuko Terada, Kouji Adachi,
Yasuhito Igarashi,and Izumi
NakaiAnal.Chem.<a>https://www.dropbox.com/s/h2q7n9p2c6q4opx/Fukushima%20Black%20Stuff%20Study%20Uni%20of%20Tokyo%20Ibaraki%20ac501998d.pdf</a>Nuclearfuel
found 15 miles from Tokyo suburbs — Fukushima uranium in‘glassy’
spheres transported over 170 km — Structural materialsfrom the
nuclear reactors also present
<a>http://enenews.com/nuclear-fuel-found-15-miles-tokyo-suburbs-fukushima-uranium-glassy-spheres-transported-170-km-structural-materials-nuclear-reactors-present-photos</a>11Tsunami embankment
in Iwaki is stilljust sandbags / Plants are starting to grow
up<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/tsunami-embankment-iwaki-still-just-sandbags-plants-starting-grow-photo/</a>JP
Gov decided to support additional500 billion yen for Tepco / Total
gov’s support up to over 5trillion
yen<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/jp-gov-decided-support-additional-500-billion-yen-tepco-total-govs-support-5-trillion-yen/</a>200,000,000,000,000
becquerels/kg infuel rod materials found near Tokyo… “the
material spreadglobally” — Composed “major part” of worst
Fukushima plume —Persists for long time in living organisms —
Must reconsiderdisaster’s health
effects<a>http://www.enenews.com/200-trillion-bqkg-fuel-rod-materials-found-tokyo-material-spread-globally-major-part-worst-fukushima-plume-persists-long-time-environment-living-organisms-reconsider-health-effects-photos</a>Municipalities
not prepared toaccept nuclear
evacuees<a>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140811p2a00m0na012000c.html</a>Tepcoseeks
OK for toxic-groundwater dumping facility at Fukushima
plant<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/11/national/tepco-seeks-ok-for-toxic-groundwater-dumping-facility-at-fukushima-plant/#.U-ko-lIg8eM</a>Plan filed to build toxic
waterdumping facility at Fukushima
plant<a>http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/08/306511.html</a>Cesium found in Japanese
steelexported to South
Korea<a>http://enformable.com/2014/08/cesium-found-japanese-steel-exported-south-korea/</a>Fukushimato make decision
on soil storage this
month<a>http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001486441</a>NHKAdmits Fukushima
Daiichi Ejected Fuel After Multiple Studies
DocumentIt<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13633</a>12TEPCO
begins pumping up groundwaterat Fukushima
plant<a>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140812p2g00m0dm037000c.html</a>Tepcoto
pump up highly contaminated groundwater for potential dischargetoday
/ Drainage plan submitted to
NRA<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/tepco-pump-highly-contaminated-groundwater-potential-discharge-today-drainage-plan-submitted-nra/</a>Tepco
“Molten fuel in Reactor 3 isonly 26cm to the outside of primary
containment
vessel”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/tepco-molten-fuel-reactor-3-26cm-outside-primary-containment-vessel/</a>Drain
pipes got clogged due to dryice project for frozen water
wall<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/drain-pipes-got-clogged-due-dry-ice-project-frozen-water-wall/</a>Children
swimming in the sea
ofFukushima<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/children-swimming-sea-fukushima-video/</a>Gov’tExpert: Fukushima
hot particles can’t be dissolved, even with hotnitric acid! —
Huge amounts of fallout are still bound to organicmaterial… “we
have very little knowledge about this” —“Reaction is
irreversible”
<a>http://enenews.com/govt-expert-fukushima-radioactive-material-be-dissolved-hot-nitric-acid-huge-amounts-fallout-bound-organic-material-very-little-knowledge-about-reaction-irreversible</a>13METI
toinvestigate radioactive scrap iron shipped to South
Korea<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/13/national/meti-investigate-radioactive-scrap-iron-shipped-south-korea/</a>JapanNuclear
Evacuation Plans Expose Absurdity Of Restarting
Reactors<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13637</a>Plutonium
detected underground nearFukushima reactor — Test results not
revealed publicly for almost ayear after sampling date — Officials
plan to pump up groundwaterfrom same well it was found in and dump it
into Pacific
Ocean<a>http://enenews.com/plutonium-detected-underground-fukushima-plant-test-results-made-public-year-after-sampling-date-officials-planning-pump-water-dump-pacific-ocean-photo</a>Biggest
Evidence Ever Publicised:Kitagawa
Takashi<a>http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.fr/2014/08/biggest-evidence-ever-publicised.html</a><a>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=742068942553380&set=a.171097882983825.40151.100002508448098&type=1</a>JapanTV:
Injecting water into Fukushima reactor accelerated meltdown —Nuclear
fuel rods had “reaction generating large amounts of heat”—
‘Restricted’ Data: Monitoring post measured nearly
1,000,000microSv/hr; Within hours radiation dose spiked 30,000% far
away
fromplant<a>http://enenews.com/japan-tv-injecting-water-fukushima-reactor-accelerated-meltdown-caused-reaction-nuclear-fuel-temperature-spiked-readings-monitoring-post-hit-1000000-microsvhr-radiation-dose-increased-30000-f</a>Cost
of Nuclear
Disaster<a>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/opinion/cost-of-nuclear-disaster.html?_r=1</a>14Uraniumcollected
at Tsukuba, 172km from the devastated Fukushima NuclearPower Plant
and just 60km from the center of Tokyo, on march 14,
2011<a>http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.fr/2014/08/curanium-collected-at-tsukuba-172km.html</a>JP
Gov todecide to abort the preceding “frozen water wall” project
on8/19/2014<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/jp-gov-decide-abort-preceding-frozen-water-wall-project-8192014/</a>We’veOpened
the Gates of
Hell<a>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-14/we%E2%80%99ve-opened-gates-hell</a>Biological effects of
Fukushimaradiation on plants, insects, and
animals<a>http://phys.org/news/2014-08-biological-effects-fukushima-insects-animals.html</a><a>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-08/aga-fl081114.php</a>Charcoal
in kettle turnedrainbow-colored in Tokyo –
Photos<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/charcoal-kettle-turned-rainbow-colored-tokyo-photos/</a>TEPCOSearches
Approval to Dump Radioactive Water Into
Sea<a>http://en.ria.ru/world/20140814/192005498/TEPCO-Searches-Approval-to-Dump-Radioactive-Water-Into-Sea.html</a>Additional
measures for Fukushimawater
management<a>http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Additional-measures-for-Fukushima-water-management-1408144.html</a>Scientists:
Fukushima radiation iscausing “serious biological effects” —
Disaster’s widespreadimpact now being revealed — “Major
irreversible shifts” inecosystems discussed — “High rates of
abnormality and mortality”…severe damage to humans
next?<a>http://enenews.com/scientists-reveal-serious-biological-effects-fukushima-radiation-widespread-impacts-population-declines-genetic-damage-high-rates-abnormality-mortality-species-significantly-impacted-disaster</a>No,
Fukushima Is Not a WildlifeHaven—and Neither Is ChernobylA slew
of new research reveals the deleterious effects ofradiation on
Fukushima’s
ecology.<a>http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/08/no-fukushima-is-no-eden-for-animalsand-neither-is-chernobyl/376046/</a>NewFukushima
Worker Testimony Describes Suicide Mission To Vent Unit
1<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13640</a>The
Ice-Wall Go-eth – Japan ScrapsFukushima Freezing
Plan<a>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-14/ice-wall-go-eth-japan-scraps-fukushima-freezing-plan</a>Why(WHOI)
Woods Hole And Ken Buesseler Ocean Water Testing For RadiationIs Not
Worth Supporting Financially
<a>http://agreenroad.blogspot.fr/2014/08/why-whoi-woods-hole-and-ken-buesseler.html</a>AsRadioactive
Water Accumulates, TEPCO Eyes Pacific Ocean As
DumpingGround<a>http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/As-Radioactive-Water-Accumulates-TEPCO-Eyes-Pacific-Ocean-As-Dumping-Ground.html</a>15TV:
Devastating mystery illness hitsCalifornia horses — “Nobody will
even tell us what it is” —Skin falling off, covered in painful
lesions, eyes swollen shut,liver damage, fainting — Expert: Never
seen anything like it in 40year
career<a>http://enenews.com/tv-heartbreaking-mystery-illness-hits-california-horses-will-skin-falling-bodies-covered-lesions-eyes-swollen-shut-liver-damage-fainting-expert-never-anything-like-40-year-career-video</a>Fukushima’s
legacy<a>http://esciencenews.com/articles/2014/08/15/fukushimas.legacy</a>Scientists
detect geneticabnormalities in Fukushima birds,
insects<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/15/national/science-health/japan-u-s-warn-of-species-mutations-in-fukushima/</a>Afterthe
Fukushima meltdown, Japan’s nuclear restart is
stalled<a>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/08/15/after-the-fukushima-meltdown-japans-nuclear-restart-is-stalled/</a>Majia’sBlog:
Spiderwebs at Fukushima Daiichi August
2014http://majiasblog.blogspot.fr/2014/08/spiderwebs-at-fukushima-daiichi-august.htmlLifein
a Fukushima world
<a>http://asaablog.tumblr.com/post/94878108901/life-in-a-fukushima-world</a>16Strongernegative
relationship of wild bird abundance and radiation level seenin
Fukushima than
Chernobyl<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/stronger-negative-relationship-wild-bird-abundance-radiation-level-seen-fukushima-chernobyl/</a>Thegovernment
of Hong Kong rejected Japanese request to lift restrictionon Japanese
imports<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/government-hong-kong-rejected-japanese-request-lift-restriction-japanese-imports/</a>Gov’tExperts:
Fukushima fuel rods melting 75 minutes after tsunami;Reactor core not
covered with water 10 minutes after power blackout —Worker: Before
explosion, Unit 1 “filled with what looked likesteam or dust… a
series of large bangs… noise never heard
before”<a>http://enenews.com/govt-experts-fuel-rods-melting-75-minutes-after-tsunami-hit-fukushima-reactor-core-longer-covered-water-10-minutes-after-power-blackout-plant-worker-before-explosion-unit-1-filled-looked-like-steam</a>Giant
watercolorcaptures devastation of Fukushima nuclear
disaster<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408160023</a>FukushimaRadiation
Causing Long Term
Effects<a>http://en.ria.ru/world/20140816/192075864/Fukushima-Radiation-Causing-Long-Term-Effects-.html</a>Nagasaki
hibakusha’sconfrontation with students a blessing in
disguise<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201408160037</a>17TEPCO,
Tohoku Electric to ‘donate’200 million yen more to village
hosting nuclear reprocessing
complex<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408170015</a>First
tranche of publichousing for Fukushima evacuees hit by delays
<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/17/national/first-tranche-of-public-housing-for-fukushima-evacuees-hit-by-delays/#.U_B6O7QcT80</a>Gov’t:
Radiation levels on US WestCoast spiked to over 1,000,000 times
normal after
Fukushimaexplosions<a>http://enenews.com/govt-radiation-levels-west-coast-spiked-1000000-times-normal-west-coast-after-fukushima-explosions-video</a>Scientist weighs
homecoming risks inFukushima
<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/17/national/science-health/scientist-weighs-homecoming-risks-fukushima/</a>CBC:
We all thought we’re doomedfrom Fukushima, it’s “going to
spread across Pacific and they’llbe no fish and the sea life will
be dead” — Professor: It’sreleasing radioisotopes directly into
ocean as we speak and we can’tpredict when it will end; An ongoing
disaster, reactors not
undercontrol<a>http://enenews.com/cbc-all-felt-doomed-fukushima-spreading-across-pacific-theyll-be-fish-sea-life-will-be-dead-professor-releasing-radioisotopes-directly-ocean-speak-sight-reactors-control-ongoing-disaster-audio-vid</a>SimplyInfo.org;Fukushima
& Nuclear News Roundup August 17,
2014<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13634</a>ANTI-NUCLEAR
LOVE SONGS: THE MUSIC OF RESISTANCE INPOST-FUKUSHIMA
JAPAN<a>http://www.upswellmag.com/anti-nuclear-love-songs-the-music-of-resistance-in-post-fukushima-japan–upswell-magazine</a>18Second
group ofFukushima residents given OK to return home in evacuation
zone<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/recovery/AJ201408180038</a>Candidate
town residents rallyagainst radioactive waste disposal site
plan<a>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140818p2a00m0na005000c.html</a>Gov’t:Radiation
level 60 km from Fukushima plant is as high as the mostcontaminated
areas in Chernobyl — “Fukushima far exceeded anycrisis previously
encountered” — “A risk of destruction of thesociety” —
Expert: “It’s unprecedented in scale and
duration”<a>http://enenews.com/govt-radiation-level-60-km-fukushima-plant-high-contaminated-areas-chernobyl-fukushima-exceeded-crisis-previously-encountered-risk-destruction-society-expert-unprecedented-scale-duration-vide</a>Townrejects
plans to build radioactive waste
site<a>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html</a>Nuclear
Expert: Fukushima fuel suspected to be inground… “it’s going to
melt right down into the ground” ifheat not removed, that’s why
these are so dangerous — Physician: “3of Fukushima’s reactors
melted through containment… the crisis isclearly
ongoing”<a>http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-fukushima-fuel-gone-ground-going-melt-down-ground-heat-removed-physician-3-fukushimas-reactors-melted-containment-crisis-ongoing-video</a>Measurements
to Verify Models of theFukushima Plume: Significant Radioactivity
Heading South
inthe Pacific<a>http://fukushimainform.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/measurements-to-verify-models-of-the-fukushima-plume-significant-radioactivity-heading-south-in-the-pacific/</a>The
effects of radiation on our health
<a>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwv-gQ6eQR4</a>19Experts:
Plutonium and uranium flowinto ocean from Fukushima — “Heavily
contaminated” water isleaking out of plant — Melted fuel
releasing hundreds of differentradioactive materials — Officials
refuse to investigate 90%
ofthese<a>http://enenews.com/plutonium-uranium-released-into-ocean-from-fukushima-heavily-contaminated-water</a>Japan
to start exporting Fukushimarice to Singapore / “Singapore was
convinced to lift
importrestriction”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/japan-start-exporting-fukushima-rice-singapore-singapore-convinced-lift-import-restriction/</a>“Japan
To Resume Fukushima Rice
Exports”<a>http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/japan-to-resume-fukushima-rice-exports-114081900384_1.html</a>Japanese
doctor “You can’tcontrol exposure only by carefully choosing
food”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/japanese-doctor-cant-control-exposure-carefully-choosing-foo/</a>How
table salt may help scientistsunderstand public radiation exposures
after a radiation
release<a>http://enformable.com/2014/08/table-salt-may-help-scientists-understand-public-radiation-exposures-radiation-release/</a>TEPCO
struggling to freezeradioactive
water<a>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140819_25.html</a>MarineProduct
Consumption Dives Steeply Due to a Shift in HouseholdStructure,
According to
Studies<a>http://koreabizwire.com/marine-product-consumption-dives-steeply-due-to-a-shift-in-household-structure-according-to-studies/17004</a>NRA
receives 17,000 comments aboutplant
restart<a>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html</a>Tokyo
Weighs Written Guarantee ofNuclear-Plant Safety
<a>http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/08/19/tokyo-weighs-written-guarantee-of-nuclear-plant-safety/</a>KURATAS
IS COMING TO FIX
FUKUSHIMALEAKS!<a>http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/japanese-government-and-private-sector-develop-custom-like-robot-to-fix-fukushima-leaks/</a>Jecroyais
que c’était seulement le problème de Fukushima”
<a>http://www.fukushima-blog.com/2014/08/je-croyais-que-c-etait-seulement-le-probleme-de-fukushima.html</a>Tokyo
Press Conference: Gov’t iscommitting crimes against humanity;
Fukushima children living in warzone and can’t leave — Childhood
cancer developing much fasterthan Chernobyl; Rate now 14 times higher
— Parent: “I’mrevealing the reality of what’s going on…
it’s only way to getrid of the
criminals”<a>http://enenews.com/tokyo-press-conference-officials-committing-crimes-against-humanity-fukushima-children-living-war-zone-evacuate-childhood-cancer-developing-faster-chernobyl-rate-14-times-higher-parent-im-reveal</a>No
One Wants You to Know How BadFukushima Might Still
Be<a>http://www.vice.com/read/no-one-wants-you-to-know-how-bad-fukushima-might-still-be-666</a>Les
cachotteries
nucléaires<a>http://www.agoravox.fr/actualites/environnement/article/les-cachotteries-nucleaires-155624</a>New
unit for the decontamination of effluents
<a>http://hillion-fukushima.blogspot.fr/2014/08/nouvelle-unite-pour-la-decontamination.html</a>20“Firm
rapped for neglecting to get Fukushima decontaminationworkers
healthchecks<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/19/national/firm-rapped-for-neglecting-to-get-fukushima-decontamination-workers-health-checks/#.U_NOjbQcShw</a>Tepco
unable to create ice wall to contain radioactive water at
FukushimaNo.
1<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/08/20/environment/tepco-unable-create-ice-wall-contain-radioactive-water-fukushima-1/</a>Citizen
in 300km area “Malformationof cicada is getting worse and
worse”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/citizen-300km-area-malformation-cicada-getting-worse-worse-photos/</a>Lawsuit
demands government release interview records with lateFukushima plant
manager<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/20/national/politics-diplomacy/lawsuit-demands-government-release-interview-records-late-fukushima-plant-manager/</a>Fukushima
radioactivewater ‘ice plug’ plan fails
<a>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11045921/Fukushima-radioactive-water-ice-plug-plan-fails.html</a>TEPCOTo
Try Two New Tactics To Stem Radioactive Tide At Fukushima
Daiichi<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13652</a>Hiding
behind uncertainty is
criminal<a>http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.fr/2014/08/hiding-behind-uncertainty-is-criminal.html</a>TEPCOto
review ‘ice wall’ scheme to stop flow of contaminated water
fromreactor<a>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140820p2a00m0na019000c.html</a>No.
1fuel rod removal to finish ahead of schedule, Tepco chief
says<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/21/national/tepco-to-finish-removal-of-fukushima-fuel-rods-ahead-of-schedule-president/</a>TEPCO
fails to create ice wall tostem radioactive water
flow<a>http://www.dianuke.org/tepco-fails-to-create-ice-wall-to-stem-radioactive-water-flow/</a>Hot
rain moving through US andCanada with levels similar to
2011.<a>http://optimalprediction.com/wp/hot-rain-moving-through-us-and-canada-with-levels-similar-to-2011/</a>TEPCO
is out of space forcontaminated water, eyes Pacific
Ocean<a>http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/tepco-is-out-of-space-for-contaminated-water-eyes-pacific-ocean/article/397789</a>TEPCO
plans to add sealant to icewalls to halt flow of radioactive
water<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408200056</a>Japan
to resume Fukushima rice
exports<a>http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-to-resume-fukushima-rice-exports</a>21TEPCO
shareholders go tocourt for disclosure of Yoshida testimony on
nucleardisaster<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408210065</a>Local
leaders seek disclosure oftestimony by former nuclear plant
chief<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408210044</a>Report:
“No one wants you to know how bad Fukushimamight still be…
gaining traction as the worst case of nuclearpollution in history”
— Physician: “This is a globalcontamination of wide swaths of the
biosphere”<a>http://enenews.com/report-one-bad-fukushima-be-gaining-traction-worst-case-nuclear-pollution-history-physician-global-contamination-wide-swaths-biosphere-video</a>New
study finds radiation dose forUS West Coast from Fukushima over 500%
of recent gov’t estimate —Release from Japan disaster could
exceed
Chernobyl<a>http://enenews.com/new-study-finds-west-coast-radiation-dose-fukushima-500-govt-estimate-release-japan-disaster-exceeded-chernobyl-map</a>NHK:
Scientists to use detectors‘deep underground’ to look for
Fukushima fuel; It’s ‘believed’to have cooled down, but no one
can check — Officials: We don’tknow if water is covering fuel —
Expert: Water must be circulatingaround fuel or it will melt
again<a>http://enenews.com/nhk-scientists-putting-detectors-deep-underground-to-look-for-fukushima-melted-fuel-they-believe-its-cooled-down-but-cant-check-expert-water-must-be-circulating-around-fuel-or-it-ov</a>FukushimaWorker
Testimony Made Public, Reveals Height Of
TheCrisis<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13655</a>The
world most dangerous
room<a>http://time.com/worlds-most-dangerous-room/</a>200,000,000,000,000
becquerels/kg infuel rod materials found near
Tokyo<a>http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.fr/2014/08/200000000000000-becquerelskg-in-fuel_22.html</a>ShouldJapan
Restart its Nuclear Reactors?
<a>http://www.themarknews.com/2014/08/21/should-japan-restart-its-nuclear-reactors/</a>22Wildmonkeys
expand habitat in
Minami-Soma<a>http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001494875</a>Top
US Nuclear Officials VisitFukushima: “The pain they’ve inflicted…
innocent lives impactedforever… children” — “Sick to my
stomach… as if I were in ascience fiction movie” — “Very
sobering” — “We raise thestandard of living for millions…
without us, heart surgery
isn’tpossible”<a>http://enenews.com/top-nuclear-officials-visit-fukushima-pain-theyve-inflicted-innocent-lives-impacted-forever-children-science-fiction-movie-very-sobering-place-raise-standard-living-millions-people-heart-surg</a>Time
Magazine: Doctor links recentoutbreaks of ‘mysterious ­rashes’
to Fukushima — CancerSpecialist: “There’s so much societal
pressure to not evenmention the word radiation” — Video: Huge
number of cancersalready… gov’t actively engaged in safety
propaganda<a>http://enenews.com/time-doctor-links-recent-outbreaks-mysterious-rashes-fukushima-cancer-specialist-societal-pressure-mention-word-radiation-video-huge-number-cancers-already-govt-actively-engaged-safety-propagand</a>Significant
Radioactivity HeadingSouth in the
Pacific<a>http://fukushimaupdate.com/significant-radioactivity-heading-south-in-the-pacific/</a>CrackedBelgian
Reactors May Be Retired, Same Risk at 22 Nuclear
PlantsWorldwide<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13663</a>NHK
“We are entering the new eraof MANY DEATHS, donating dead body to
medical uni can be
recommended”<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/nhk-entering-new-era-many-deaths-donating-dead-body-medical-uni-can-recommended/</a>TimothyA.
Mousseau: “Fukushima Catastrophe and its Effects on
Wildlife”Timothy A. Mousseau: Professor of Biological Sciences,
Universityof South Carolina
<a>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IcTGUMwVtU</a>Scientist
holds press conference inTokyo: Urgent need to share new developments
from Fukushima — Very,very striking results show radiation injury
to whole ecosystems —Significant implications for
Japan<a>http://enenews.com/scientist-holds-press-conference-tokyo-urgent-need-share-new-findings-fukushima-very-very-striking-results-show-injury-ecosystems-radiation-significant-implications-regions-japan-video</a>“Ever
since sheleft Fukushima, she has avoided watching the news on TV. She
doesn’twant to get married and says there is no future for victims
ofradioactivity…
<a>http://nuclearexhaust.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/fukushimas-radiation-victims/</a>23Former
Japanese PM Naoto Kan urgesAustralia to wean world off uranium, focus
on
renewables<a>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-22/move-towards-renewables-former-japanese-pm-tells-australia/5691118</a>FukushimaCatastrophe
and its Effects on Wildlife: Prof. Timothy A.
Mousseau<a>http://www.dianuke.org/fukushima-catastrophe-and-its-effects-on-wildlife-prof-timothy-a-mousseau/</a>S.
Korea returned 20 tof Japanese marine products for Cs-134/137
contamination / Not fromFukushima
area<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/s-korea-returned-20-t-japanese-marine-products-cs-134137-contamination-fukushima-area/</a>Fukushima
Prefecture toaccept intermediate storage facility for radioactive
waste<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408230037</a>Fukushima
to acceptconstruction of interim soil storage
facility<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/23/national/fukushima-to-accept-construction-of-interim-soil-storage-facility/#.U_gbn0hr32A</a>PhysicistsSay
Fukushima Reactors Pose Eternal Threat to
Humanity<a>http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20140823/192281175/Physicists-Say-Fukushima-Reactors-Pose-Eternal-Threat-to.html</a>Yoshida
testimony on Fukushimanuclear accident may be disclosed after
all<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408230029</a>Govt.To
Disclose All Yoshida Testimony Of Fukushima
Disaster<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13668</a>Nuclearpower
stations cause childhood leukemia – and here’s the proofByIan
Fairlie<a>http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2525488/nuclear_power_stations_cause_childhood_leukemia_and_heres_the_proof.html</a>Scientist:Massive
spikes in radioactivity are being hidden from public —Radiation
doses around nuclear reactors increase exponentially —It’s a
major worry… very, very important — Something must
bedone<a>http://enenews.com/scientist-massive-spikes-radioactivity-being-hidden-public-radiation-doses-around-reactors-increase-exponentially-major-worry-very-very-important-video?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29</a>24Thyroid
cancer diagnosed in 104young people in
Fukushima<a>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408240011</a>Malignant
and possible malignantthyroid tumor in Fukushima children became
“104″<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/malignant-possible-malignant-thyroid-tumor-fukushima-children-became-104/</a>Fukushima
labor office announcedproclamation of the state of emergency for
unusual number of
deathcases<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/fukushima-labor-office-announced-proclamation-state-emergency-unusual-number-death-cases/</a>Worriedabout
living in the disaster area”, 30,000 Tokyo households moved /Same
number as
Fukushima<a>http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/worried-living-disaster-area-30000-tokyo-households-moved-number-fukushima/</a>RadiologicalDisaster
Survey in Tokyo Suburbs: 13μSv/h in Kashiwa, Chiba2014-08-24
<a>http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.fr/2014/08/radiological-disaster-survey-in-tokyo.html</a>US
Official: There were orders tonot get within 230 miles of Fukushima
Daiichi — Potassium iodidegiven to all defense personnel and
families within 200 miles of plant— Over 1,100 kinds of radioactive
material
detected<a>http://enenews.com/us-official-there-were-orders-not-to-go-within-230-miles-of-fukushima-daiichi-potassium-iodide-given-to-all-defense-personnel-and-families-within-200-miles-over-1100-kinds-of-radioactive-mater</a>SimplyInfo.org;Fukushima
& Nuclear News Roundup; Aug 24,
2014<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13673</a>Don’tbank
on nuclear
restarts<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/08/24/editorials/dont-bank-nuclear-restarts/</a>FirstRound
of Fukushima Thyroid Examination Complete: Provisional ResultsShow 57
Confirmed and 46 Suspected Cases of Thyroid Cancer, A Totalof 103
Cases.<a>http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.fr/2014/08/first-round-of-fukushima-thyroid.html</a>25MitsuheiMurata:
To Prevent Fukushima from Causing the Ultimate
GlobalCatastrophe<a>http://solartopia.org/mitsuhei-murata-to-prevent-fukushima-from-causing-the-ultimate-global-catastrophe/</a>FukushimaWatch:
Early Data on Thyroid Cancer Released
<a>http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/08/25/fukushima-watch-early-data-on-thyroid-cancer-released/</a>“Yoshida:
Fukushima Plant Supply
SystemInadequate”<a>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html</a>Japan
to release late nuke plantchief’s
testimony<a>http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0825/c90777-8774256.html</a>Afterleaks,
government to release interviews with deceased Fukushima
plantboss<a>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/25/national/leaks-government-release-interviews-deceased-fukushima-plant-boss/</a>Nuclear
Engineer: Studies showmultiple fuel cores ejected from Fukushima
reactors… I thought sotoo, it was one of my big concerns —
Radiation Expert: Hotparticles of uranium and plutonium fuels
detected nearly 300
milesaway<a>http://enenews.com/nuclear-engineer-studies-show-multiple-fuel-cores-ejected-fukushima-reactors-thought-one-big-concerns-hot-particles-uranium-plutonium-fuels-detected-300-miles-away-video</a>“Editorial:Earthquake
disaster refugees falling through cracks of
gov’tnegligence”<a>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/perspectives/news/20140825p2a00m0na010000c.html</a>Kanslams
TEPCO over request to “withdraw” from crippled
plant<a>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/140824/kan-slams-tepco-over-request-withdraw-crippled-plant</a>Official
wept at prime minister’soffice: “I’m sorry, we’ve tried…
but we are in a situationbeyond our control” at Fukushima — Hours
Later: “People’sblood ran cold”… “Huge hole” suspected to
have opened up inNo. 2
Reactor<a>http://enenews.com/official-wept-prime-ministers-office-im-sorry-weve-situation-beyond-control-fukushima-hours-later-peoples-blood-ran-cold-huge-hole-opened-2-reactor</a>Physicists
Say Fukushima ReactorsPose Eternal Threat to
Humanity<a>http://www.globalresearch.ca/physicists-say-fukushima-reactors-pose-eternal-threat-to-humanity/5397537?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=physicists-say-fukushima-reactors-pose-eternal-threat-to-humanity</a>MoreFukushima
Children Found With Thyroid Cancer
<a>http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13676</a>Elevated
Rates of Thyroid CancerFound in Fukushima
Youth<a>http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/25/elevated-rates-thyroid-cancer-found-fukushima-youth</a>NuclearEngineer:
Studies show multiple fuel cores ejected from Fukushimareactors… I
thought so too, it was one of my big concerns —Radiation Expert:
Hot particles of uranium and plutonium fuelsdetected nearly 300
milesaway<a>http://enenews.com/nuclear-engineer-studies-show-multiple-fuel-cores-ejected-fukushima-reactors-thought-one-big-concerns-hot-particles-uranium-plutonium-fuels-detected-300-miles-away-video</a>Fukushimafishermen
briefed on new drainage
system<a>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140825_33.html</a>

Major
gathering of scientistsexamine relationship between Fukushima and
problems with wildlife offUS West Coast — Looking closely at to
what extent radiation iscoming into these areas, and how to best
assess its impact — Humanhealth experts ‘reevaluating’
radiation limits in seafood… FDA‘not terribly
protective’<a>http://enenews.com/major-gathering-of-scientists-exam-relationship-between-fukushima-and-problems-with-wildlife-off-us-west-coast-looking-at-how-to-best-assess-impact-of-on-pacific-human-health-experts-reevaluat</a>